Make it with tomatoes
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Book Introduction
Boom! My friend in front of me turned into a tomato.
Is this power a curse or an ability?
A sticky and sour tomato-like horror friendship story featuring Jo Ye-eun appears!
Jo Ye-eun, who has created fantastic and unique worlds with works such as 『Cocktail, Love, Zombie』 and 『Tropical Night』, has returned to readers with a sticky and sweet-and-sour story for the summer.
"Make Me a Tomato," the thirty-fourth book in the "First Encounter with a Novel" series, is the story of "Domayun," a child with the ability to turn others into tomatoes.
The plot, which compares the complex emotions of adolescence, tangled like tomato vines, to supernatural powers, shines with a chilling glow, and Jo Ye-eun's cheerful answers leave a refreshing smile in your heart.
Following "Cocktail, Love, Zombie," illustrator Kwon Seo-young's illustrations once again align with the novel's world, vividly conveying the smooth appearance of tomatoes.
This summer, bravely embark on Mayun's moist yet sweet journey to face her emotions head-on.
Is this power a curse or an ability?
A sticky and sour tomato-like horror friendship story featuring Jo Ye-eun appears!
Jo Ye-eun, who has created fantastic and unique worlds with works such as 『Cocktail, Love, Zombie』 and 『Tropical Night』, has returned to readers with a sticky and sweet-and-sour story for the summer.
"Make Me a Tomato," the thirty-fourth book in the "First Encounter with a Novel" series, is the story of "Domayun," a child with the ability to turn others into tomatoes.
The plot, which compares the complex emotions of adolescence, tangled like tomato vines, to supernatural powers, shines with a chilling glow, and Jo Ye-eun's cheerful answers leave a refreshing smile in your heart.
Following "Cocktail, Love, Zombie," illustrator Kwon Seo-young's illustrations once again align with the novel's world, vividly conveying the smooth appearance of tomatoes.
This summer, bravely embark on Mayun's moist yet sweet journey to face her emotions head-on.
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Make it with tomatoes
Author's Note
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Into the book
It's ruined.
I accidentally turned Park Eun-hae into a tomato.
---p.7
I had already cried, but I wanted to cry more.
How did I come to be born with this ability?
Even if you had the ability to turn someone you hate into a tomato, it wouldn't be of much help in your daily life and you'd have to live your whole life in anxiety.
---p.14
Yumi is kind, stylish, pretty, and everyone likes her.
We live in the same neighborhood, but Domayun is 'the tomato farm guy' and Yumi is 'Yumi Do'.
For some reason, I felt ashamed of that gap.
---p.25
At that moment, a huge fruit of hatred grew inside me.
It was a fruit of a very red and attractive color.
---p.34
I felt like it was all my fault.
From that day on, I tried to suppress my emotions as much as possible.
In particular, I tried hard to ignore negative emotions such as dissatisfaction, jealousy, and resentment, which could become seeds of hatred at any time.
---p.46
Park Eun-hae probably didn't see it that far, but the thought of my shame being exposed to someone else made me feel like vomiting.
My fingertips grew cold and my mind whirled like tomatoes in a furious blender.
---p.55
Yumi's smooth and shiny demeanor makes it impossible for her to ignore my unevenness.
Because an ugly tomato placed next to a round, pretty tomato is bound to be compared.
Maybe I hate myself as much as I hate Yumi, or even more.
---p.62
And now, I wanted to get away from the feeling of wanting to be someone else or hating someone so much.
I accidentally turned Park Eun-hae into a tomato.
---p.7
I had already cried, but I wanted to cry more.
How did I come to be born with this ability?
Even if you had the ability to turn someone you hate into a tomato, it wouldn't be of much help in your daily life and you'd have to live your whole life in anxiety.
---p.14
Yumi is kind, stylish, pretty, and everyone likes her.
We live in the same neighborhood, but Domayun is 'the tomato farm guy' and Yumi is 'Yumi Do'.
For some reason, I felt ashamed of that gap.
---p.25
At that moment, a huge fruit of hatred grew inside me.
It was a fruit of a very red and attractive color.
---p.34
I felt like it was all my fault.
From that day on, I tried to suppress my emotions as much as possible.
In particular, I tried hard to ignore negative emotions such as dissatisfaction, jealousy, and resentment, which could become seeds of hatred at any time.
---p.46
Park Eun-hae probably didn't see it that far, but the thought of my shame being exposed to someone else made me feel like vomiting.
My fingertips grew cold and my mind whirled like tomatoes in a furious blender.
---p.55
Yumi's smooth and shiny demeanor makes it impossible for her to ignore my unevenness.
Because an ugly tomato placed next to a round, pretty tomato is bound to be compared.
Maybe I hate myself as much as I hate Yumi, or even more.
---p.62
And now, I wanted to get away from the feeling of wanting to be someone else or hating someone so much.
---p.81~82
Publisher's Review
“It’s ruined.
“I accidentally turned my friend into a tomato.”
Mayun, an ordinary middle school student, has a secret that sets her apart from others.
The ability to turn anyone who makes you angry or embarrassed into a tomato.
I've been very careful ever since I turned my grandmother into a tomato when I was in elementary school, but I ended up turning my friend 'Park Eun-hae' into a tomato.
The bigger problem is that the scene was discovered by another friend, Yumi Do, who has feelings for him.
“I have the ability to turn people I hate into tomatoes.”
Yumido asked back with wide eyes.
"tomato?"
(…)
“It’s totally cool!” (p.20)
To Mayoon, who is at a loss as to how to turn Eunhae back into a human, Mido surprisingly asks her with sparkling eyes to turn someone she knows into a tomato.
Even while she is paralyzed with fear, Mayoon is concerned about Mido's request and Mido who asked the request.
I wish I were you
The truth as red as a tomato
Unlike the ordinary Mayoon, Mido is “lively enough to win first place in the popularity poll” (p. 24) and even has “pretty double-lidded eyes” (p. 18).
The reason Mayoon gradually distanced himself from Mido, who he had been close with since elementary school, was because of the hatred that arose whenever he saw Mido.
Mayoon is unable to tell Mido, who happily takes his hand and praises his ability to turn people into tomatoes, the truth that Mayoon's feelings for Mido are intertwined with the reason he turned Eunhae into a tomato.
This ability, which is nothing but a curse to me, is hope? And to Yumido, the first person I hate in the world? (p. 19-20)
Mayoon, who had been suppressing her emotions for fear of turning people into tomatoes, was caught by Eunhae being so anxious about Mido that she couldn't stand it anymore and ended up turning her into a tomato.
Even amidst all this, Mayun cannot reveal one truth to anyone.
The fact that I was so jealous of Mido.
Our emotions are sometimes sticky, sometimes sweet and sour.
It's natural no matter what shape it ends up in.
To make matters worse, something shocking happens to Mayun, who was just holding her breath and unable to say anything, and now Mido has to deal with the situation alone.
Can Eun-hae turn back into a human? The power that turned her into a tomato originated from Mayoon's twisted emotions. If we can find and resolve the source of these emotions, won't we be able to bring Eun-hae back?
"Make Me a Tomato" talks about the turbulent emotions that adolescence is particularly susceptible to, such as longing, jealousy, and hatred.
Just as not all tomatoes are red and glossy, our lives cannot be filled with only beautiful emotions.
As if to represent him, the tomatoes that appear in Mayun's world each have different shapes.
It's time to imagine with Mayoon how to cultivate this tomato farm in your heart, where both pretty and ugly things grow.
If I carefully examine and acknowledge the tomatoes that are opening drop by drop in my heart, I will gain the courage to say to myself what Mido said to Mayun.
“You must have had a hard time too.
If you can control your own mind, are you a human? You're a robot.
“There’s no need to blame yourself too much.” (p.61)
“I accidentally turned my friend into a tomato.”
Mayun, an ordinary middle school student, has a secret that sets her apart from others.
The ability to turn anyone who makes you angry or embarrassed into a tomato.
I've been very careful ever since I turned my grandmother into a tomato when I was in elementary school, but I ended up turning my friend 'Park Eun-hae' into a tomato.
The bigger problem is that the scene was discovered by another friend, Yumi Do, who has feelings for him.
“I have the ability to turn people I hate into tomatoes.”
Yumido asked back with wide eyes.
"tomato?"
(…)
“It’s totally cool!” (p.20)
To Mayoon, who is at a loss as to how to turn Eunhae back into a human, Mido surprisingly asks her with sparkling eyes to turn someone she knows into a tomato.
Even while she is paralyzed with fear, Mayoon is concerned about Mido's request and Mido who asked the request.
I wish I were you
The truth as red as a tomato
Unlike the ordinary Mayoon, Mido is “lively enough to win first place in the popularity poll” (p. 24) and even has “pretty double-lidded eyes” (p. 18).
The reason Mayoon gradually distanced himself from Mido, who he had been close with since elementary school, was because of the hatred that arose whenever he saw Mido.
Mayoon is unable to tell Mido, who happily takes his hand and praises his ability to turn people into tomatoes, the truth that Mayoon's feelings for Mido are intertwined with the reason he turned Eunhae into a tomato.
This ability, which is nothing but a curse to me, is hope? And to Yumido, the first person I hate in the world? (p. 19-20)
Mayoon, who had been suppressing her emotions for fear of turning people into tomatoes, was caught by Eunhae being so anxious about Mido that she couldn't stand it anymore and ended up turning her into a tomato.
Even amidst all this, Mayun cannot reveal one truth to anyone.
The fact that I was so jealous of Mido.
Our emotions are sometimes sticky, sometimes sweet and sour.
It's natural no matter what shape it ends up in.
To make matters worse, something shocking happens to Mayun, who was just holding her breath and unable to say anything, and now Mido has to deal with the situation alone.
Can Eun-hae turn back into a human? The power that turned her into a tomato originated from Mayoon's twisted emotions. If we can find and resolve the source of these emotions, won't we be able to bring Eun-hae back?
"Make Me a Tomato" talks about the turbulent emotions that adolescence is particularly susceptible to, such as longing, jealousy, and hatred.
Just as not all tomatoes are red and glossy, our lives cannot be filled with only beautiful emotions.
As if to represent him, the tomatoes that appear in Mayun's world each have different shapes.
It's time to imagine with Mayoon how to cultivate this tomato farm in your heart, where both pretty and ugly things grow.
If I carefully examine and acknowledge the tomatoes that are opening drop by drop in my heart, I will gain the courage to say to myself what Mido said to Mayun.
“You must have had a hard time too.
If you can control your own mind, are you a human? You're a robot.
“There’s no need to blame yourself too much.” (p.61)
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: May 23, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 100 pages | 122*188*15mm
- ISBN13: 9788936431563
- ISBN10: 8936431560
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